Aliyar
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- a-lee-YAAR
- Origin
- Persian
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,686 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #4,856 for boys
Aliyar is a boys' name of Persian origin, meaning “friend of Ali”. In 2025 it ranked 1,686th for boys in the UK (16 babies) and 4,856th for boys in the US (20 babies).
What does Aliyar mean?
Persian: Arabic Ali plus Persian yar, 'friend, helper'
“friend of Ali”
Honours Ali, cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad.
Is Aliyar a girl's or a boy's name?
Aliyar is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 boys in the UK and 20 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aliyar in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,686th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 16 about 1 in 19,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 83% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 16 boys in the UK were named Aliyar, making it the 1,686th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,185th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 16 boys.
Half of all the boys named Aliyar in the UK since 1996 were born between 2021 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among boys in 2025, it was 1,612th in England and Wales.
Aliyar in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #1,686 |
| 2024 | 8 | #2,750 |
| 2023 | 9 | #2,468 |
| 2022 | 11 | #2,143 |
| 2021 | 16 | #1,619 |
| 2020 | 10 | #2,185 |
| 2019 | 5 | #3,597 |
| 2018 | 3 | #4,959 |
How popular is Aliyar in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,856th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 20 about 1 in 85,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 20 boys in the US were named Aliyar, making it the 4,856th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,016th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 21 boys. It first appears in the records in 2019.
Half of all the boys named Aliyar in the US since 1880 were born between 2021 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.
Aliyar in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #4,856 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,307 |
| 2023 | 8 | #8,916 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,293 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,624 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,016 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,138 |
Names like Aliyar
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad, Amir, Abdullah, Musa, Mustafa, Huzaifa, Umar, Zayd, Ibrahim, Abubakr, Zayaan, Zorawar
More Persian names
Jasper, Esther, Jasmine, Casper, Cyrus, Yasmin, Darius, Kiyan, Rumi, Yasmine, Kasper, Mahnoor, Dario, Arian, Arman, Armaan
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Aliyar: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aliyar, updated 20 October 2026.